When a criminal is captured by a guard, they are hauled off to jail to serve time for brazenly wandering among the kind and good folks of town. There they serve out their sentence and then are let loose on the general populace once more.

There are a couple of ways to leave jail, and this is where it starts to get weird.

Talk to the rat
There’s a rat on a chest that you can speak to in order to leave jail. However, if you speak to the rat before your time is up, he resets your timer… and the timer of everyone else in jail.

Escaping jail
In a room off to the side of the main jail cell there is a toilet with an opening large enough for a person to fit through. No, I’m not making this up. 🙂

Paying bail
If a criminal has five or more bounties on them and they are sent to jail, their bail is set at 2x the bounty they had on their head at the time. It is possible to lower the bail by periodically talking to Elenora, the Correctional Bureau NPC. Also, for some reason, the criminal no longer fits through the toilet when jailed with five or more bounties on them.